# Court (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/court/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Middle English for someone who worked or lived in a court.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,530 |
| US rank (2010) | 12,289 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 122,034 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.2% (2,525 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English and French surname, from the noun court. Also from the French adjective court (“short”). * As an Irish surname, reduced from McCourt.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Court in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Court in Australia.

## People named Court

- Margaret Court, Australian tennis player

## Similar surnames

Curto, Cort, Cowart, Cerda, Card, Carty, Coward, Creed, Croteau, Charette, Corrado, Carruth.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.